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Has the Globe just shown a newfound, if inadvertent, support for the Pacheco Law?

August 20, 2018 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) Although we are an advocacy organization that focuses on human services, we have at times waded into the ongoing controversy over the operation of the MBTA in Boston. The reason for that has to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities, mbta, pacheco-law, privatization

RBIs should win in a walk

May 23, 2018 By Charley on the MTA

While we lament that Bob DeLeo's is the House Where Hope Goes To Die/Why We Can't Have Nice Things, the Senate continues to do good and creative work -- even in spite of, uh, recent distractions. Sen. Eric Lesser has a Budget Amendment … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: mbta, RBIs, transportation

Baker’s MBTA derailed, battered by on-the-nose metaphors

February 27, 2018 By Charley on the MTA

[with apologies to the Onion] As we round into the election season, we get to appraise the success of Governor Baker's reforms at the MBTA. Are things better, three years after inheriting a weather-exacerbated crisis in early 2015? We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, Jim Aloisi, mbta

Oh, That’s What He Meant

January 7, 2018 By hesterprynne

Arising this morning to find half the commuter rail stuck in its tracks again and the GM's thoughts off in Siberia, we are reminded that our Governor promised us "a state government that gets out of the way." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: charlie-baker, mbta

The T: Three years later, still broken

December 30, 2017 By Charley on the MTA

The Baker administration inherited a mess of an MBTA when it took office in 2015, which quickly bloomed into an actual crisis. The weather that January and February was record-breaking, which exposed every last flaw in the system from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, mbta

In transit, the future of “never”

December 7, 2017 By Charley on the MTA

Jim Aloisi's column in Commonwealth mag is really a must-read -- and gets right to the dreary lack of vision and egalitarian spirit that plagues our transportation authorities and political culture, from the Governor and MassDOT on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: gondola, Jim Aloisi, mbta, traffic, West Station

New Leadership For Boston: Tito Jackson For Mayor

November 4, 2017 By jamaicaplainiac

(While I’m promoting this post as being of general interest, this shouldn’t be seen as a BMG endorsement in this race - Charley) Boston is at a crossroads. Tuesday's election is fundamentally about what kind of city we want this to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: bospoli, boston, BPS, education, election, housing, marty-walsh, mbta, Tito Jackson

Why Cap and Invest Is the Right Solution for Massachusetts Transportation

October 19, 2017 By DanielGatti

With the Baker administration announcing new listening sessions to reduce pollution from transportation I wanted to cross-post this blog post from UCS' The Equation on the need for a cap and invest program covering transportation in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: climate, electric vehicles, GWSA, mbta, rggi, transportation

#DearJeff indicates civic despair

October 17, 2017 By Charley on the MTA

Like many, I'm very cool to the idea of bringing Amazon to Boston. It solves none of the problems and needs we have, and indeed would exacerbate many of them. We don't need 50,000 new high tech jobs with six-figure salaries. We don't have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: #dearjeff, amazon, boston-globe, mbta, Music Man

A slow-moving train crash: 20 years+ of disinvestment in the T

October 11, 2017 By Charley on the MTA

Michael Widmer, formerly of Mass. Taxpayers Association, gives a recap of the last twenty years (plus) -- twenty years -- of dawdling and avoidance on actually funding our transportation needs. It's a sad tale of short-sightedness and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, deval-patrick, mbta, Michael Widmer, robert-deleo

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lalexgreen Alex Green @lalexgreen ·
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Folks love the imaginary Hollywood spectacle of a courtroom battle over legal rights, but @maura_healey and @AndreaForAG 's best move is to negotiate and settle a lawsuit to free disabled people from nursing homes. My latest in @CommonWealthMag #mapoli
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rachelmiselman Rachel Miselman @rachelmiselman ·
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Here @WeThePeople_MA is defending the Boston police. Wait a few hours/days to see her do an about-face on this issue. It all hinges on whatever position is getting the most applause, on social media. #bospoli #mapoli

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notoriousvog Notorious VOG @notoriousvog ·
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Also UNIONS shouldn’t have influence over #PublicSafety. Any meaningful #PoliceReform MUST include set of CORE responsibilities & requirement which AREN’T subject so-called COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Cops AREN’T cleaning ladies, they hold life & death in their hands. #BOSpoli #MApoli

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Accreditation MUST be required for PROFESSIONAL law enforcement. Every individual police officer SHOULD be required to be licensed and unable to do police work w/o such license and accreditation. Police are given too much authority and too little responsibility. #BOSpoli #MApoli

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attychamp Linda Champion, Esq. 🔥🥰🤩 comments are my own @attychamp ·
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@Livinthetruth1 That sounds good. But, trust me, in a city and state where @massdems Black & white electeds practice herd endorsement simply to take the vote out of hands of #Black & #brown voters. All your comfort-food for white consumption goes out the window.

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“As one of 435 members of Congress it’s really hard to stand out, let alone make national news. He [@JakeAuch] pulled it off…” - @GrayMediaGroup #mapoli

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